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Taking Control of Our Lives

Program #CHON156.
Recorded in Albuquerque, NM
on February 25, 2000.

2 CDs

Chomsky says that the right of sovereignty is fundamental to the task of taking control of our lives. He describes what citizens are up against as "an array of mega-corporations often linked to one another by strategic alliances administering a global economy, which is in fact a kind of corporate mercantilism tending toward oligopoly in most sectors, heavily reliant on state power to socialize risk and cost and to subdue recalcitrant elements." This lecture was a benefit for Interhemispheric Research Center in Albuquerque, and the discussion is rich with examples from Latin America.

Recorded at the Kiva Auditorium in the Albuquerque Convention Center.

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Noam Chomsky, by any measure, has led a most extraordinary life. In one index he is ranked as the eighth most cited person in history, right up there with Aristotle, Shakespeare, Marx, Plato and Freud. The legendary MIT professor practically invented modern linguistics. In addition to his pioneering work in that field he has been a leading voice for peace and social justice for many decades. Chris Hedges says he is “America’s greatest intellectual” who “makes the powerful, as well as their liberal apologists, deeply uncomfortable.” He is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. At 90, he still gives lectures all over the world. He is the author of scores of books, including Propaganda & the Public Mind, How the World Works, Power Systems and Global Discontents with David Barsamian.